1109. Suffixes, not of noun-derivation

a. Suffixes, not of noun-derivation or of inflection, may be traced with more or less plausibility in a few other adverbs. Thus, for example, in prātárearly, and sanutáraway; indakṣiṇítwith right hand, and cikitvítwith consideration; in nūnámnow, and nānānámvariously. But the cases are in the main too rare and doubtful to be worth notice here.

b. In the epics begin to be found a small class (about a dozen are quotable) of adverbs having the form of a repeated noun-stem with its first occurrence ending in ā and its second in i: e. g.hastāhastihand to hand, rathārathichariot against chariot, karṇākarṇiear to ear.

c. The adverbs thus far described are almost never used prepositionally. Those of the next division, however, are in many instances so used.